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Christie’s Auction House London, Art of the Islamic and Indian World’s
Christie's auction house London, will be holding their Arts of the Islamic and Indian World's sale on Thursday 25th June 2020. The sale includes a fine selection of oriental rugs and carpets spanning 300 years of weaving. One of the standout pieces is a fine Indian Agra carpet woven in the first half of the 19th century, and is comparable to a similar example in the Tehran Carpet Museum, also a rare 18th century Caucasian carpet (lot 175) which has a very unusual golden yellow colouring, and a beautiful silk Yarkand carpet from East Turkestan with the iconic pomegranate design. From Persia a Qashqai saddle cover along with many other fine oriental rugs and carpets.
Rippon Boswell & Co will be holding their Spring Auction in Wisesbaden on 27th June 2020. The sale includes 298 lots of fine oriental rugs and carpets, some from a prominent collection.
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Sotheby’s London Arts of the Islamic World Auction
Sotheby's Auction House London will be holding their Arts of the Islamic world sale on Wednesday 10th June 2020. The sale will include fine oriental rugs and carpets, from a prominent private collection. among this consignment are a number of rare examples, including a well known Ushak saf lot 253, and a beautiful Khorasan fragment lot 282.
Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers has an oriental rug and carpet sale on 10th June 2020. The sale offers a fine selection of classical rugs and carpets from the Caucasus, Turkey and Persia, and a few Flemish tapestries. The highlights of the sale is a stunning late 19th century Persian Sultanabad Safavid design carpet.
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The Austria Auction Company Fine Antique Oriental Rug Sale
The Austria Auction Company in Vienna will be holding their twentieth dedicated oriental carpet auction on Saturday 30th May 2020. This sale will be devoted to the dispersal of one large and impressive Austrian collection. There are 112 lots ranging from the 16th century to the 20th and include important rugs and carpets from Turkmenistan and East Turkestan as well a previously unknown west Anatolian small pattern Holbein fragment made in the early days of the Ottoman Empire. Of particular note are the Turkmen main carpets, a large group of 19th century Caucasian rugs and twelve East Turkestan carpets, including a beautiful Khotan carpet (lot 42, estimate £19,000-£28,000) with a rare field design that combines medallions and rosettes.
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Rippon Boswell & Co Oriental Rug Auction
Rippon Boswell & Co will be holding a two day sale this week, the first day Friday 8th May 2020 will feature 372 lots of rare literature on oriental rugs and textiles. The following day Saturday 9th May 2020 will be devoted to a substantial consignment comprising of 168 lots of mostly Chinese and Tibetan rugs and carpet from the Wollesen Collection, as well as various other oriental rugs and carpets that will feature in the sale.
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Austria Auction Company Fine Antique Oriental Rugs
The Austria Auction Company will be holding there Fine Antique Oriental Rug sale on 25th April 2020. The sale comprises of 54 lots, including pile carpets, flatweave and textiles. The sale includes some familiar museum quality pieces from the same private collection. some of the standout rugs and carpets in this auction are lot 36, a beautiful Caucasian Dragon carpet, and lot 35 a well known 16th century Bernheimer Star Ushak rug, and lot 37 a spectacular and very unusual Turkish yellow ground pomegranate yastik.
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Rugs & Carpets A Brief History
Rugs & Carpets A Brief History By Guy Schooling
For millennia rugs and carpets have been used throughout the world to make any type of abode, no matter how grand or humble, a home. They were originally conceptualized in order to provide warmth, comfort and for decorative purposes.
It is not know exactly when people started making rugs, however there is evidence that ancient nomadic tribes facing extreme cold began to weave reeds and grasses together as a means of separating themselves from the frigid floor. The practice of rug making as we know today, namely the interweaving of wool and other animal fibres together to create floor and wall coverings, began in Central Asia over 5,000 years ago, with the oldest existing example, the Pazyryk Carpet, found in astoundingly good condition in Siberia in 1949, dating to around 500 BC.
It was the Persians who perfected the manufacture of these pieces, elevating them from purely functional domestic furnishings to emblems of prestige and power, through the use of precious metals and gems in finely woven carpets. Persian examples remain the most popular at auction today, with their rich colours and highly decorative scrolling floral and foliate motifs. Whereas Persian rugs and carpets are largely identifiable for this reason, Turkish and Caucasian types can be distinguished for their more geometric style, although all rugs from these areas can vary hugely in material, decoration and method of manufacture depending on the city, town or village in which they were made, and are often so named. These rugs and carpets became popular in the West through the merchants of Venice from the 16th century onwards, and have adorned European homes ever since.
Other notable and popular types are those of the Aubusson region of France, with their often ornate floral detail, and those of the European Modernist and the British Arts and Crafts movements. Sworders have enjoyed success selling the stylish carpets and rugs woven at the Merton Abbey Mills for Morris & Co and in Donegal, Ireland. The most striking and desirable are those by influential designers such as Archibald Knox, Charles Voysey, or William Morris.
Despite the softening of demand for what some consider to be ‘old fashioned’ English country house furnishings, antique carpets remain a staple of interior decoration – particularly with the popularity for waxed and polished hardwood or stone flooring. They have the ability to change any interior into an extraordinary space and the huge variety of decorative styles and colourways means that one is sure to be able to find that perfect piece for their home, no matter the interior scheme.
Some key things to consider when buying rugs and carpets at auction:
- Size – choose a piece which is suitable size for the space.
- Condition – be sure to look for tears, stains or areas of wear and reduced pile.
- Quality – with the popularity particularly of Persian and Eastern rugs in Europe, a great many have been mass produced recently to suit the demand. A look at the back of a piece can be extremely helpful in distinguishing an antique hand knotted example from something which has been made recently using a machine.
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Sotheby’s London
Arts of the Islamic World and India sale will be held at Sotheby's auction house London on Wednesday 1st April 2020. The sale includes 70 lots of oriental rugs and carpets, mostly from two private collections. included in the sale are many rare examples, one such piece that stands out is a fragment from a well known Turkish Ushak multi tiered saf carpet, lot 253, also a beautiful Persian Khorasan carpet fragment, lot 282. other pieces that should be highlighted are lot 316 a green ground silk Yarkand carpet, a superb early Shahrisyabz susani lot 280, an Anatolian rug lot 263, and finally a beautiful Kashgar carpet lot 322.
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Dorotheum Oriental Carpets, Rugs,Textiles & Tapestries Auction
Dorotheum auction house will be holding there Oriental carpet, rug, textile and tapestries auction on Wednesday 25th March 2020 at their Vienna saleroom. The auction comprises of 230 lots of rare and high quality pieces, including an unusual Persian Malayer carpet, and a well preserved and rare pictorial Persian Shiraz carpet with silk inlay. other highlights include a beautiful Persian Bakhshaish carpet, which depicts trees of life on an indigo ground, a lovely Suzani, an ivory ground Turkish Ushak rug, and a bold Persian Serapi carpet, and a good looking Persian Mahal rug.
Two sales are to be held in Zurich, firstly Schuler Auctions which has its Oriental Rugs and Carpets sale on Wednesday 25th March 2020. The auction will offer a diversity of special rugs and carpets, some of the stand out pieces are a Agra carpet, measuring over 9 meters long, an Istanbul carpet and an antique Persian silk Heriz rug. In addition to the typical room size carpets, several modern and old Kilims will also be up for auction.
Koller's next sale of Oriental Carpets will be held at their Zurich saleroom on Thursday 26th March 2020. It comprises of 69 lots including many collectors items as well as decorative carpets. One of the highlights is a 18th century Spanish Cuenca carpet, with stylized plant and animal motifs on a blue and beige ground.
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Austria Auction Company’s Collector Rugs and Carpet Sale
The Austria Auction Company will be holding there collector rugs and carpet sale on 28th February 2020, at there saleroom in Vienna. The auction comprises of 136 lots of antique and old Persian and oriental rugs and carpets including flat weaves. The oldest rug in the sale is an Anatolian Ushak prayer rug, date-able to circa 1800 (lot 46), From the 1970s there is a group of Persian silk Qum rugs, also Kashmiri, Hereke, and Kayseri rugs and carpets. The sale also has a selection of Caucasian, Turkmen and Persian rugs and carpets, as well as bags and trappings. One of the better pieces is a late 19th century Caucasian Chelaberd, Eagle Kazak rug (lot 37).
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Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers
Bruun Rasmussen auctions will be holding there two part Spring oriental rug and carpet auction on the 26th February 2020. The sale will offer a selection of antique and decorative rugs and carpets, the highlight being a beautiful room size Persian Heriz carpet with a weeping willow and cypress design. in addition to the oriental rugs and carpets, the auction includes a selection of Swedish vintage textiles by Marta Maas-Fjetterstrom and other well known designers.
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